I have lines with a single :
and a'
in them that I want to get rid of. I want to use awk
for this. I've tried using:
awk '{gsub ( "[:\\']","" ) ; print $0 }'
and
awk '{gsub ( "[:\']","" ) ; print $0 }'
and
awk '{gsub ( "[:']","" ) ; print $0 }'
non of them worked, but return the error Unmatched ".
. when I put
awk '{gsub ( "[:_]","" ) ; print $0 }'
then It works and removes all :
and _
chars. How can I get rid of the '
char?
tr
is made for this purpose
echo test\'\'\'\':::string | tr -d \':
teststring
$ echo test\'\'\'\':::string | awk '{gsub(/[:\47]*/,"");print $0}'
teststring